We all are aware about the
benefits of eating small portions of meals but often don’t know the right way
to do it. Today, I am going to share about my experience about how small
changes in my diet helped me to eat less and lead a healthy life.
When I was back at my work place,
I began my day with green tea, which has few drops of lime in it. It helped to
take out all the toxin from the body on a daily basis. It was my first and last
tea of the day, throughout the day, I won’t drink tea / coffee after that. But
yes, sometimes I may have coffee, that too if I come across CCD (café coffee
day) outlet or CCD vending machines. I just love their coffee. Common, I am human
being too.
Green tea is followed by
breakfast, I have cornflakes with milk and raisons. I add raison to get the
sweet taste. I take a small cup of milk in a bowl and add cornflakes to it, so
that cornflakes is submerged completely in milk. That’s it, I am done with my
breakfast. You can use any other food item like chapati, idli or muesli but
keep the quantity minimal. Earlier I used to have 4 idli’s now I eat only 2, as
its sufficient for me to survive. I never skip my breakfast as it is the first
meal of the day, we shouldn’t skip it. Breakfast itself means breaking the
fast.
For lunch I have little rice,
curry and some vegetable. I also try to include cucumber as much as I can in my
lunch. Whenever I have fried fish or fried chicken, I make it a point to have
either cucumber or onion. In such situation, rice portion is reduced a bit.
My evening snacks are digestive
biscuits, rice puff or groundnut. As there are healthy snack options and can be
easily found at home. But yes, there are days when I crave for having something
from outside like samosa, rolls or anything which I feel I having then. And I
just have it, believe me it makes me really happy. As these are done
occasionally.
I have my dinner by 8 pm usually
unless I am out or attending a party. Because I sleep by 10 pm and doctors say
we should have minimum 2 hours gap between our sleep and dinner. After dinner I
don’t eat anything, not even snacks. Drink water whenever thirsty and also keep
a water bottle handy near bed for night. I make it a point to drink good amount
of water before and after dinner. So, that I don’t feel thirsty at night. Best
way to avoid eating after dinner to brush your teeth 30 mins after your dinner.
Then the chances of eating anything is less.
I like to eat something sweet after
my lunch and dinner. So, I always keep jaggery handy with me, I take small bite
of it or have groundnut jaggery chikki.
I know some of you will ask me
some tips for eating less
Ø Drink
water before your lunch and dinner, water will fill your stomach and you will
tend to eat less
Ø Include
salad for your lunch and dinner, salad will fill your stomach
Ø Once
a week eat very light meal like curd rice or khicdi, it is good for digestion
and healthy for stomach
Ø Always
drink water from water bottle and not glass. Reason, through water bottle you
will drink more water than glass. Keep your water bottle handy
